re: Rich black parents ask an academic to tell them why their kids are underperforming`

Good God, every paragraph I read has a quote that just makes me want to kick a puppy.

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“I find it useless to argue with people like Ogbu,” says Urban League educational fellow Ronald Ross, himself a former school superintendent. “We know what the major problems in this school system are: racism, lack of funding, and unqualified teachers.” Although Shaker Heights is in fact an integrated, well-funded, and well-staffed school district, Ross is nonetheless convinced that it suffers from other problems that contribute to the achievement disparities between the races.

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Wow.

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She believes school pressure to speak Standard English and “act white” is the very thing that makes black students fail. “What I found, the requirements in school compelled them to act in ways as if they weren’t living in black bodies but who were essentially white or mainstream Americans,” she says. “Kids found it difficult to deal with that and they found strategies to deal with it. They had to speak a certain variety of English in order to be successful. They had to buy into the ideas that dominate mainstream America.

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No fricking shite. Everyone has to do this you fricking idiot. Unless you’re a rapper.

Do you think I would have gotten hired to be an airline captain if I couldn’t speak proper English?

Before Dr.Ben Carson entered the presidential race he came to Shreveport to do a book signing.
I drove up there and got in line with probably 300 other white people,not 1 black person was there.
I didn’t think he would necessarily make good president but I was in awe of his accomplishments.

Uncle Tom: black person not obsessed with rap culture and living in the streets.

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Before Dr.Ben Carson entered the presidential race he came to Shreveport to do a book signing.
I drove up there and got in line with probably 300 other white people,not 1 black person was there.
I didn’t think he would necessarily make good president but I was in awe of his accomplishments.

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He served in his cabinet position for the whole term.

DeSantis people do not mention him. Y remember Trum helping to guide him where he was supposed to be for one of the debates, the rest of the assholes about trampled him.

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Ogbu concluded that the average black student in Shaker Heights put little effort into schoolwork and was part of a peer culture that looked down on academic success as “acting white.”

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Professor John Ogbu:

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I'm glad he said it and not a white guy

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With a name like Ogbu, I suspect he's not a US born black, and thus doesn't put up much with victim bullshite.

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Born in Nigeria.

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My son's best friend from 1st grade to 12th grade is a delightful black kid. Great parents, great home life, and just a nice kid. However, he took a ton of abuse from the other black kids at school for the very reason mentioned here. He had 'too many' white friends and his speech was 'too white'. Seriously. It was disheartening.

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Literally this guy?

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concluded that the average black student in Shaker Heights put little effort into schoolwork and was part of a peer culture that looked down on academic success as “acting white.”

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This is 100% a problem among blacks not only in school but the workplace. I see it all the time, you can take 3 black employees and one will excel at his job and the other 2 will deride him for it calling him an Uncle Tom, white arse kisser, etc until eventually all 3 employees are worthless.

It’s detrimental and incredibly ironic because it’s like black culture is admitting that academic and economic success is a trait of white people so in order to be black they must be stupid, lazy and poor. But if a quote person points out that one of them is stupid lazy and poor that means we are racist